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April 9, 2010
by Cassy Fiano
Jane Fonda will be forever infamous as Hanoi Jane, the idiot
celebrity who paved the way for idiot celebrities everywhere to rub
elbows with dictators and despots like Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez.
Of course, what Jane Fonda did was far worse than just rubbing some
elbows. She actually committed treasonous activities. Now, however,
she'd like you to believe that it's all just a right-wing myth.
JANE FONDA: No, it's about the myth, you know, why it is that 300
people went to North Vietnam, people, many people before me, why me,
why have they created this myth? You know, when I came back from
North Vietnam, there was maybe a quarter of an inch of media about it
in the New York Times. Nobody made any big deal out of it. It was
created, and some people are stuck-
LARRY KING: By critics?
FONDA: By right wingers. There are some people who are like stuck
there, you know, they're still stuck in the past. I always want to
say, "Get a life," or, you know, "Read what really happened," you
know. The myths are now true.
Of course, anyone with any knowledge of the Vietnam War knows exactly
how big a part Jane Fonda played in it. They know of her treason. But
just in case some of you don't, read on:
In July-August 1972 Fonda made her infamous trip to North Vietnam. By
this time, over 50,000 Americans had been killed in the war. While
there, she posed for pictures on an anti-aircraft gun that had been
used to shoot down American planes, and she volunteered to do a radio
broadcast from Hanoi. She made approximately eight radio addresses,
during which she told American pilots in the area:
"Use of these bombs or condoning the use of these bombs makes one a
war criminal … Examine the reasons given to justify the murder you
are being paid to commit … I don't know what your officers tell you …
but [your] weapons are illegal and that's not just rhetoric … The men
who are ordering you to use these weapons are war criminals according
to international law, and in the past, in Germany and Japan, men who
committed these kinds of crimes were tried and executed."
Fonda also quoted Ho Chi Minh during some of these broadcasts. She
referred to President Richard Nixon as a "new-type Hitler," and
advised South Vietnamese soldiers to desert: "You are being used as
cannon fodder for U.S. imperialism."
These radio addresses were aired repeatedly by the North Vietnamese
Communists, for whom propaganda was a key tool of psychological
warfare; they used the broacasts not only to hearten their own
citizens, but also to undermine the American public's will to go
forward with the war, and to crush the morale of U.S. and allied forces.
In an effort to explain why she made her broadcasts over Radio Hanoi,
Fonda writes in her autobiography that she had mainly wanted to
educate U.S. pilots about the great harm their bombing campaigns were
inflicting on innocent people. But in fact, most of what Fonda said
was of a highly political nature. Many of the statements had been
scripted for her by the North Vietnamese. Among her statements were
the following (as catalogued by Henry Mark Holzer):
"I want to publicly accuse Nixon here of being a new-type Hitler
whose crimes are being unveiled."
"The Vietnamese people will win."
"Nixon is continuing to risk your [American pilots'] lives and the
lives of the American prisoners of war . . . in a last desperate
gamble to keep his office come November. How does it feel to be used
as pawns? You may be shot down, you may perhaps even be killed, but
for what, and for whom?"
"[President Nixon] defiles our flag and all that it stands for in the
eyes of the entire world."
"Knowing who was doing the lying, should you then allow these same
people and some liars to define for you who your enemy is?"
"The only way to end the war is for the United States to withdraw all
its troops, all its airplanes, its bombs, its generals, its CIA
advisors and to stop the support of the . . . regime in Saigon . . . ."
"There is only one way to stop Richard Nixon from committing mass
genocide in the Democratic Republic of Vietnam, and that is for a
mass protest . . . to expose his crimes . . . ."
"In 1969-1970 the desertions in the American army tripled. The
desertions of the U.S. soldiers almost equaled the desertions from
the ARVN army . . . ."
"Perhaps the soldiers . . . who have suffered the most . . . [are]
the black soldiers, the brown soldiers, and the red and Asian soldiers."
"Should we be fighting on the side of the people who are, who are
murdering innocent people, should we be trying to defend a government
in Saigon which is putting in jail tens of thousands of people into
the tiger cages, beating them, torturing them . . . . And I don't
think . . . that we should be risking our lives or fighting to defend
that kind of government."
"We . . . have a common enemyU. S. imperialism."
"We thank you [the Viet Cong and North Vietnamese] for your brave and
heroic fight."
"Nixon's aggression against Vietnam is a racist aggression [and] the
American war in Vietnam is a racist war, a white man's war."
"I heard horrifying stories about the treatment of women in the U.S.
military. So many women said to me that one of the first things that
happens to them when they enter the service is that they are taken to
see the company psychiatrist and they are given a little lecture
which is made very clear to them that they are there to service the men."
"The POWs appear to be healthy and fit. . . . All of them have called
publicly for an end to the war and signed a powerful antiwar letter . . . ."
"A few of them [the POWs] tell me they, too, are against the war and
want Nixon to be defeated in the upcoming elections. They express
their fear that if he is reelected, the war will go on and on . . .
and that bombs might land on their prison."
"I am asked to convey their [the POWs'] hopes that their families
will vote for George McGovern."
"I ask them [POWs] if they feel they have been brainwashed or
tortured, and they laugh."
"We read with interest about the growing numbers of you [South
Vietnam Army troops] who are understanding the truth and joining with
your fellow countrymen to fight for freedom and independence and
democracy [i.e., with the Communists]. . . . We think that this is an
example of the fact that the democratic, peace-loving, patriotic
Vietnamese people want to embrace all Vietnamese people in
forgiveness, open their arms to all people who are willing to fight
against the foreign intruder.
In addition to the foregoing statements, Fonda also said:
that the Vietnamese people were peasantsleading a peaceful, bucolic
life before the Americans came to destroy Vietnam.
that the Vietnamese were seeking only "freedom and independence"
which the United States wanted to prevent them from having.
that the million infantry troops which the United States put into
Vietnam, and the Vietnamization program, had failed.
that Patrick Henry's slogan "liberty or death" was not very different
from Ho Chi Minh's "Nothing is more valuable than independence and freedom."
that President Nixon had violated the 1954 Geneva Accords.
that the United States must get out of South Vietnam and "cease its
support for the . . . Thieu regime."
that American troops were fighting for ESSO, Shell and Coca-Cola.
that the soldiers of the South Vietnamese army were "being sent to
fight a war that is not in [their] interests but is in the interests
of the small handful of people who have gotten rich and hope to get
richer off this war and the turning of [their] country into a
neocolony of the United States."
that American soldiers in Vietnam had discovered "that their officers
were incompetent, usually drunk . . . ."
that she had recently talked to "a great many of these guys [black
American soldiers] and they all expressed their recognition of the
fact that this is a white man's war, a white businessman's war, that
they don't feel it's their place to kill other people of color when
at home they themselves are oppressed and prevented from determining
their own lives."
Such statements could have had only one purpose: to provide aid and
comfort to America's Communist enemy. Fonda's propaganda efforts
played a major role in prolonging the war and increasing the death
toll. As North Vietnamese Colonel Bui Tin explained in a postwar
interview with The Wall Street Journal, the American antiwar movement
"was essential to our strategy. Support for the war from our rear
[China] was completely secure while the American rear was vulnerable.
Every day our leadership would listen to world news over the radio at
9 a.m. to follow the growth of the American antiwar movement. Visits
to Hanoi by people like Jane Fonda . . . gave us confidence that we
should hold on in the face of battlefield reverses."
… When Fonda returned to the U.S., she told college students, "I
bring greetings from our Vietnamese brothers and sisters," and she
lamented the war damage that she had seen in North Vietnam
inflicted, she said, by U.S. forces. She also sported a necklace
given to her by the North Vietnamese Communists, made from the melted
parts of a U.S. aircraft they had shot down.
Whenever stories about POWs getting tortured emerged, Fonda called
them lies. When the POWs began coming home in 1973 and their accounts
of torture began to gain credence, Fonda called the returning
soldiers "liars, hypocrites, and pawns." "Tortured men do not march
smartly off planes, salute the flag, and kiss their wives," she said.
"They are liars. I also want to say that these men are not heroes."
… Fonda and Hayden also returned to Hanoi and went on to the
"liberated zones" of South Vietnam (areas the Communists had
conquered) to shoot the documentary Introduction to the Enemy, a
propaganda piece depicting the North Vietnamese as peaceful patriots
who, despite years of war and bloodshed, did not hate Americans and
planned to create an ideal new society based on justice and equality.
If you follow the link above, you can also read about how her visit
directly led to the torture of American POWs. Jim Hoft has pictures
of her time at Hanoi, too.
She's encouraging people to read what really happened? Well, that's
what we're doing, and I see one thing. I see that Jane Fonda is a
traitor, who without a doubt provided aid and comfort to our enemy
during the Vietnam War, repeatedly. She provided propaganda for the
North Vietnamese. She caused the torture of our POWs and the turned
around and slandered them when they got back. If treason is defined
by "providing aid and comfort to our enemies", then Jane Fonda is
surely a traitor. And that isn't some "right-wing myth". It's a FACT.
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